Collective Futurecrafting

Dreaming up better futures together and making them real.

Collective Futurecrafting is an initiative designed to empower communities to dream up better futures together and engage in active collaboration and learning to bring those visions to life.

Grounded at the hyper-local level, Collective Futurecrafting is about bringing people of all ages together in ‘Futurecrafting Circles’ to discuss, connect with, act towards, and reflect on challenges that matter most to them. These challenges may include:

• Climate change adaptation
• Food security and regenerative agriculture
• Social justice and equity
• Mental health and intergenerational trauma
• Education and lifelong learning
• Sustainable urban design and development
• Vulnerable populations and community services
• Community resilience and wellbeing
• Technology addiction and its social impact
• Loneliness and civic engagement, and more.

But our vision goes far beyond the local context. We aim to create the conditions for a new model to emerge—one where we, as Earthians, can dream and build together. By creating networks of interconnected circles and Community Learning and Action Networks (CLANs), we envision supporting a fractal governance structure and codesigning a socio-technical fabric we call the WISDOM protocol (Wiser Innovation Symbiotically Designed for Organismal Mutualism). This structure enables us to collaborate more effectively as a species, fostering a socio-cultural force with the power to transform how we:

• Do: creating regenerative systems that work in harmony with nature.
• Relate: building meaningful relationships across diverse communities.
• Know: Generate collective knowledge and share insights.
• Be: Live in ways attuned to the flourishing of life on this planet.

🌱 What is a Futurecrafting Circle?

At its core, a Futurecrafting Circle is a gathering space where people come together to:

• Share their hopes, dreams, fears, and ideas.
• Collaboratively define actionable steps towards a shared future vision.
• Reflect and learn as they take action.

Through storytelling, somatic healing, playfulness, co-creation, and iterative action, these Circles help reconnect us with ancestral ways of coming together—face-to-face, heart-to-heart, and mind-to-mind.

🌀 Scaling through CLANs

Futurecrafting Circles form the foundation of a broader network of Community Learning and Action Networks (CLANs). These localised networks act as multidirectional relationship amplifiers for:

• Sharing stories and knowledge across communities,
• Pooling resources and expertise,
• Coordinating collective projects, and
• Scaling local solutions to address regional and even global challenges.

This interconnected system fosters collaboration at scale while preserving local autonomy, enhancing capabilities and affording for cultural diversity.

🌍 Our mission

Create the conditions for a thriving, equitable, and regenerative future for all life on Earth.

We aim to:

1. Rekindle the spirit of collaboration and moral imagination that has sustained communities for millennia.
2. Harness the power of modern technology and social innovation to amplify these age-old practices.
3. Establish a new model of governance and collective action that reflects our interconnectedness with and shared responsibility for the planet we all call home.

🔗 Get involved

We invite you to:

• Start your own Circle with our resources and guidance.
• Collaborate with us to build the tools, playground, frameworks, and systems that will enable a flourishing future.

Visit our website for more details, resources, and upcoming events.

🤝 How to contribute

We welcome contributions of all kinds—whether you’re a developer, designer, writer, or just someone passionate about co-creating a better future.

Contributing to the website

This site is built using Jekyll, a Ruby static site generator.

To contribute, follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository: Click the "Fork" button on the GitHub repository.

2. Clone your fork:

   git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/collective-futurecrafting.git
   cd collective-futurecrafting

3. Install Jekyll and other Gems:

Jeykyll requires Ruby 2.5 or above. You can install Ruby by running:

brew install ruby

Install Jekyll and Bundler:

gem install jekyll bundler

Install all gems (plugins) from the Gemfile with Bundler:

bundle install

4. Run the site locally:

   bundle exec jekyll serve

5. Open http://localhost:4000 in your browser to view the site.

6. Commit your changes and create a pull request.

Suggestions for contributions

• Propose new sections or improve existing ones.
• Submit a blog post or article to share your ideas and stories.
• Enhance accessibility or optimise performance.
• Translate the site into other languages.

🛠️ Development setup

Here’s a quick guide to set up your local environment for development:

Prerequisites

• Ruby (>= 2.5.0)
• Bundler (gem install bundler)
• Jekyll (gem install jekyll)

Key files and directories

• _authors/: Collection for authors, still to be developed.
• _data/: YAML files for dynamic content (e.g., navigation).
• _data/: Draft blog posts, can be previewed by running serve or build with the --drafts switch. When drafts are ready to be published, just move them to the _posts folder. ß
• _includes/: Reusable components like headers and footers.
• _layouts/: HTML templates for pages.
• _posts/: Collection of blog posts in Markdown.
• _resources/: Collection of resources in Markdown.
• assets/: CSS, JavaScript, and images.
• pages/: Static pages in Markdown or HTML.
• _config.yml: Site-wide configuration settings.
• Gemfile: List of used Ruby gems.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

As long as you:

• Give appropriate credit and link to the license.
• Share any derivative works under the same license.